Summer is the season of growing, the season of life. ... However without the supports from all other people, the reformation will not be succeeded. ... Summers, with all of his importance, had someone over him. ... Warner is the oldest man in village and, therefore, having the most knowledge of what the original tradition was all about. ... All of her jokes turned into pleas and accusations once she drew out the specified "death" paper. ...

• Word Count: 1301
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"The Cask of Amontillado" weaves all the plot elements together in such a way as to keep a readers attention throughout the entire story without wanting to put it down. ... Furthermore, the setting is a pre-Lenten carnival in an Italian city, sixth through fifteenth century making it erotic and awkward "was skilful in the Italian vintages it was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season"(Jerome B et al. 70). ... The masons was a club any well off man could have been in "You? ... The gothic style was that of a particular time period from around 500 A.D. till...

• Word Count: 2072
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After the summer solstice, it is in the rapider growing season for the crops in much of Europe. ... The number, seventy-seventeenth, represents the old and decayed tradition of the lottery ritual has continued over for seventy-seventeenth years; it represents the lottery has slain seventy-seventeenth villagers at least; it represents Old Man Warner is unaware to take part in the killing activity for all his life. ... Summer is a cheerful season and full of life. ... Summers is a "jovial man" (137). He is a both forward thinker and successful business man. ...

• Word Count: 2165
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After completing the story, my hopes of the kind of man Nick Adams would grow to be began to dwindle because whether you are only a little child or even a grown man, the matter of witnessing a death is not one that can be dealt with easily. ... After pondering the inevitable for what seems like an eternity in the dark woods all alone, Nick fires three shots into the night sky---the signal for his father and uncle to come back in case of an emergency. ... In spite of his early destitution, Nick Adams does indeed grow up to be a fine young man. ... In times of distress, all one really needs i...

• Word Count: 1254
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I'm also going to show that the man, who creates most tension between a man and a woman and who in fact may have the leading role, is only mentioned by name, he is not in the story itself. ... At the very end of the story the atmosphere is quite charming: "...There was a whip-poor-will still coming back, imagine clear out of season, sitting in the crab-apple tree calling all by himself" (p. 92). This passage has a beautiful description of the mood suggesting that everything is now all right, but on the other hand all the things that are left unsaid make the reader feel that the reality i...

• Word Count: 1958
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

All people have problems with the community in which they live. ... After meeting this strange man, Brown begins to witness some bizarre events. ... After seeing all of these people in the woods, he becomes very angry with his community. ... During the carnival season, Montresor encounters Fortunato and decides to implement his plan carefully not to arouse Fortunato's suspicions through irony. ... Montresor calls Fortunato "dear" when he hates this man with a passion. ...

• Word Count: 2414
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School